During a Recent IRS Audit, the Revenue Agent Decided That

question 33

Essay

During a recent IRS audit, the revenue agent decided that the Emig family used their closely held corporation, Gamekeeper, to avoid shareholder tax by accumulating earnings beyond the reasonable needs of the business. Gamekeeper's taxable income was $800,000, it paid no dividends, and it had no business need to retain any income. Compute Gamekeeper's accumulated earnings tax assuming that it had accumulated $2 million of after-tax income in prior years.

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Definitions:

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon or the magnitude of a relationship between variables.

Cohen

Often refers to statistical power analysis methods or effect size measures designed by Jacob Cohen, used in hypothesis testing.

Alpha

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing that determines the level of significance, often set at 0.05.

Type I Error

A Type I error occurs in hypothesis testing when a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected, falsely indicating a significant effect or difference when there is none.